• August 28, Webinar: Academic Freedom in Palestine: A Conversation with Imad Barghouthi

    Saturday, August 28 9 am Pacific, 12 pm Eastern, 7 pm Palestine time Register: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcsdeGgqT8iGtTXTYZuJtkzslCT6uCYnQL3/success?user_id=yY-fvGcSR2yih1ENdAPYIg&timezone_id=Asia%2FJerusalem Facebook Event: https://fb.me/e/NZxjjkl0 Event organized by Scientists for Palestine Join Scientists for Palestine, as we speak directly to Imad Barghouthi, renowned Palestinian astrophysicist, father of five and Professor of Plasma Physics at Al Quds university (West Bank) ! Prof. Imad […]

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  • Nov. 8, online event: A Conversation with Ubai Aboudi

    Sunday, 8 November 10 am Pacific – 1 pm Eastern – 8 pm Palestine time Organized by Scientists for Palestine Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZMpcuipqDgiGdUuIu88i-47cvXhPt7WGGBg Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/374245957104909 Registration for this event is now open. The link to register can be found here. Scientists for Palestine is extremely proud to announce an entire webinar dedicated to the return […]

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  • Israel Systematically Blocks International Scholars From Reaching Palestine

    “Palestinian Universities Demand Israel Respect Their Rights” By David Palumbo-Liu August 11, 2019 … It is precisely this lack of parallels that indicates the dramatically uneven situation for Palestinians — in terms not only of education, but all aspects of everyday life. When people try to shine a light on these conditions, they too are […]

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  • Nada Elia: “Empty chairs: Combating Israel’s assault on Palestinian academia”

    The following article, by Nada Elia, was first published online on July 23, 2018, at Middle East Eye. Nada Elia is a member of the Organizing Collective of the US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel. In Cork, Ireland, last month, at the annual meeting of the American Conference for Irish Studies, an […]

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  • American Conference of Irish Studies members condemn Israeli violations of Palestinian academic freedom

    The following statement was issued by attendees at the meeting of the American Conference of Irish Studies in Cork, Ireland, in June 2018. USACBI Organizing Collective member David Lloyd participated in a panel at the conference on Palestine and Ireland with Conor McCarthy, Ronit Lentin and a Palestinian academic who was forced to participate over […]

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  • A Firsthand Account of Israel’s Siege on a Palestinian University

    Cynthia Franklin, Professor of English at the University of Hawai’i and a member of the Organizing Collective of USACBI, wrote for Truthout on May 2 about her experience with Israeli repression of Palestinian universities during a two-week residency at Al-Quds University in Abu Dis. She writes: “Those of us fortunate enough not to have Israel’s […]

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  • Interview with Haidar Eid on SWANA Region Radio: Inhuman Conditions in Gaza

    LISTEN (Thursday August 21, 2017, 2.30 pm) to Haidar Eid, Associate Professor of Postcolonial and Postmodern Literature at Gaza’s al-Aqsa University in Gaza, being interviewed by David Lloyd, Distinguished Professor of English at the University of California, Riverside, and a founding member of the US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel, on today’s SWANA Region […]

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  • Cultural Studies Association Executive Committee Condemns Israel’s Attacks on Palestinian Universities

    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 8, 2014 Press Contact: csamedia@csalateral.org The Cultural Studies Association (CSA) Executive Committee strongly condemns the continuing attacks on Palestinian universities, colleges, and schools by the Israeli government, including most recently the June 2014 invasion of Birzeit University, and the August 2014 decimation of the Islamic University in Gaza City. Israel”s continuing attacks targeting identifiable […]

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  • USACBI condemns Israeli attacks on Palestinian universities

    The United States Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (USACBI) condemns the recent Israeli closures of three Palestinian institutions of higher education, Al Quds University (Jerusalem), the Arab American University (Jenin), and Birzeit University.  The Israeli military physically invaded each institution, but besides these direct acts of aggression, the recent attacks of the Israeli […]

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  • Hebrew University as seen from the East Jerusalem village of Issawiya

    Call to Boycott the Oral History Conference at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem: Open Letter

    The following open letter was originally issued on August 12 to oral historians and scholars planning to participate in the June 2014 International Conference on Oral History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The letter is signed by over 375  scholars and community oral historians and counting; and is endorsed by Academic and Cultural Boycott […]

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